Senior / Principal Backend Engineer at SlashID

  • Anywhere (100% Remote) Only
  • SlashID
Job Description:

About the role

We’re looking for people with a strong technical background and a passion for building highly scalable and reliable systems. You’re a good fit if you are comfortable dealing with complex distributed systems, have exquisite attention to detail, and enjoy learning new technologies.

SlashID is remote-first and we offer flexible working arrangements to help our team manage their daily lives in the way that works best for them.

Please note: the exact level of the role (Senior or Principal) will depend on your experience and interview performance.

You will:

  • Design, build and maintain SlashID’s products, services and features
  • Be part of the engineering team working on our Authentication, Data Vault and User Management services
  • Use and adapt state-of-the-art cryptographic libraries and primitives
  • Build tooling to monitor and analyze SlashID’s services, both in terms of performance and security
  • Write technical documentation, blogs and guides
  • Work with other highly motivated engineers who all have an intrinsic drive to make things better
      • Use your passion for technology to ensure our platform operates flawlessly 24/7
  • Have broad exposure to our entire architecture

You'll use:

  • Go (Golang)
  • Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
  • Tink
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • Postgres and MySQL

###bYou are a good fit if you:

  • Have a strong understanding of reliability practices, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures
  • Have experience as a cloud or backend engineer for a multi-tenant large scale mission critical system
  • Have a thorough understanding of engineering best practices, including appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, resilient architecture
  • Have a good understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
  • Have experience producing high-quality technical documentation for the products you develop Love building secure software, leveraging the latest cryptographic technology and methodology
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative environment
  • Have a passion for reliable and performant systems, and care deeply about user experience
  • Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different backgrounds and expertise

Interview Process

1.Interview with Head of Engineering (30 min)

2.Interview with CEO or CTO (30 min)

3.Live coding technical interview + meet the team (3 hours)

4.(For Principal level candidates only) System design interview (90 min)

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